The Physical Medicine Department Services

Moses Taylor Hospital 700 Quincy Avenue Scranton PA 18510-1798 (570) 340-2100

Occupational Therapy at Moses Taylor Hospital helps patients increase their independence with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, and eating. Another segment of the program helps increase patients functional mobility when using everyday conveniences such as a bed, tub chair or commode. Often these forms of therapy are necessary after serious physical illness, stroke or an accident.

Physical Therapy is a form of rehabilitation that improves a patient's strength, walking, balance, range of motion and endurance. This is accomplished with physical methods such as passive and active exercise, massage, heat and/or cold therapy and a wide range of techniques such as myofascial release, mobilizations and modalities. Muscular strength is often restored, joints and muscles are retrained to improve function, and pain and spasms are reduced.

The Occupational and Physical Therapy Programs at Moses Taylor work closely with the Joint Ventures Program, assisting patients who have undergone joint replacement. All therapies are individualized, focusing on human interaction, and delivered in both inpatient and outpatient formats.

Speech Pathology provides evaluation and remediation of speech/language communication disorders as well as swallow function. Stroke, alzheimer's disease, head trauma and degenerative conditions like multiple sclerosis frequently interfere with an individual's ability to communicate. Moses Taylor offers a comprehensive Speech Pathology Program to assist adults who suffer from the problems associated with these disorders. Working with patients having speech and language difficulties, swallowing impairment or cognitive dysfunction, licensed staff administer therapies on both an inpatient and outpatient basis.